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Developer: Metadigm
Publisher: Interplay
Reviewer: Sebastian Rosa
Set phasers to fun - Sebastian Rosa has come to, er, boldly go.
And to show alien chicks what that thing called 'love' is.
In the 90s most blockbuster movies and TV
shows sooner or later had at least one
computer adaptation. Quality varied but the
purpose was always the same: to create a lot
of promotional buzz and to make money.
Everyone in the known universe must have
heard of Star Trek so it would have been
unthinkable if one of the most popular TV
series in history had not made it to the
computer screen. Enter Interplay Software
and Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary.
The game's concept focuses on events that
occur after the last episode of the original
series. Conventional video game wisdom
suggests two ways in which these might be
handled. The first would be to concentrate on
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the adventure aspect and have the player
guide the characters through a variety of
locations, solving puzzles. The second would
be as a space flight simulator with space
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combat. Star Trek, interestingly, combines the
two. The game consists of several missionbased
episodes, with each episode divided
into two stages: pseudo-cosmic simulation
and classic adventure.
On board the Enterprise there are six crew
members, via whom you can command the
whole ship. The Captain's bridge serves as
the main screen. The man in red on the left is
Scotty. He is a mechanic and can fix ship
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deep space.
damage (you
can give him orders
using the D key from
the keyboard) or enable the
emergency power supply (E key). Above his
head, and on the other side of the screen, the
scheme of the ship shows what has been
damaged. On the right, in a blue uniform, sits
Spock who is the technology expert. Using his
abilities you can log into the computer (C key)
and get access into the database which has
important information about characters and
objects. Spock is also a good advisor (T key).
In the middle of the bridge are Sulu and
Chekov. The former takes responsibility for
getting into orbit (O key) and the raising and
“What works against one foe
won't work against another.”
lowering of shields (S key) while the latter
activates weapons (W key) and takes care of
navigation (N key). There are two more characters:
Uhura is a communications officer (H
key) and Kirk himself (K key) keeps the
captain's log and controls the transporter.
Here you can also save or load the game, turn
the music and sound effects on or off or quit
the game entirely.
Giving orders is not all that you can do. In
the central part of the screen you can
see the main window where combat
occurs. Not the easiest part of the
game, combat. You need to
manipulate the speed of the
ship, aim the target,
shoot and repair
any damage.